This book is both a completed endeavor and a work in progress. It is unquestionable that leaders must develop technical, socio-relational, cognitive and self-leadership competencies. It is also indisputable that the relative importance of these competencies changes as leaders advance in their careers. However, the thesis that leadership is a process involving leaders, followers and the situation has an implication: as followers and the situation change (and few changes are as profound as those engendered by COVID-19), leaders must adapt their behaviors in order to be more effective leaders. Thus, here it is another implication: leadership itself is also a work in progress.
Arménio Rego is Professor at Católica Porto Business School, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Portugal). He has published in journals such as Human Relations, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Management, and The Leadership Quarterly, among others. He is the lead author of The Virtues of Leadership: Contemporary Challenge for Global Managers (Oxford University Press, 2012), and co-author of Elgar Introduction to Theories of Organizational Resilience (Elgar, 2018), and Positive Organizational Behaviour: A Reflective Approach (Routledge, 2020). His main research focuses on virtuous leadership, organizational virtuousness, team processes, and individual performance and well-being.
Miguel Pina e Cunha is the Fundação Amélia de Mello Professor at Nova SBE, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal). He studies organization as process and paradox and has co-authored the Elgar Introduction to Theories of Organizational Resilience (Elgar, 2018) and Positive Organizational Behaviour: A Reflective Approach (Routledge, 2020), and co-edited Contemporary Social Theory for Management (Routledge, 2019). His recent articles on paradox appeared in journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Human Relations, Management and Organization Review, Organization Studies, Research in the Sociology of Organizations and Strategic Organization.